Change Makers

MP Suman delivers on promise

Election season is all about tall promises. Candidates go door-to-door and pledge different things to the voters, only to be a no-show for five years in many cases

Change Maker / Following in her father’s footsteps

Fauzia Beethi is not a political figure in her area, but everybody knows her in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila for her philanthropic works.

Change Maker / For the love of a language

In a country where people laid down their lives about seventy years ago to uphold the dignity of their mother tongue, Bangla, the struggle is still on to preserve mother tongues of smaller ethnic communities.

The pursuit of a dignified life

Giving away her hard-earned income to the destitute, Dil Afroze Khuki of Rajshahi chose a life of constant battles. In her 60s now, she has been a newspaper hawker in the northern city for 30 years.

Change Maker / A beacon with books for all

A schoolboy who started a library in his village with only 10 books back in 2014 now supplies books to 30 salon-based mini-libraries in two upazilas with money earned from part-time jobs.

Ferdousi: A torchbearer of education

Paschim Barua village used to be pervaded by some typical social ills -- superstition, child marriage, and child labour. A remote village of 20,000 people in Kulaghat union of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, it has now been transformed by education.

The Daily Star honours: Soinuddin Miah, the man who paved a path for many

Mohammad Soinuddin Miah, a farmer of remote village in Tangail, put in superhuman labour for four years to construct a 1.5-kilometre long earthen road with the intention of ending the sufferings of his fellow villagers.

The Daily Star honours: Abdur Rashid, the man who gave it all for the children

For close to a decade, Abdur Rashid, a marginal farmer from a remote village in Lalmonirhat, has been running the school, “Kaliganj Pratibandhi Bidyalay”, with support from locals and specialised teachers who volunteer.

MINDMATTERS: Raising Awareness About Mental Health

To this day, the Bangladeshi community struggles with the stigma of mental health disorders and treatment. While people openly seek

Litmosphere: The secret book club

Have you ever felt that your habit of reading books is gradually decreasing, as we advance towards a world where gadgets take up

Promoting art through Calligraphy

Calligraphy has been practiced for a very long time in many parts of the world, including ours. Many used this art form to create special

Project Alokito Shishu

Imagine growing up on the streets of Dhaka as an underprivileged child, without a roof above your head or a bed to sleep on.

PROJECT DALIT

Ironically, people who labour to keep our society clean are considered 'unclean'. We often address them with the terms 'sweepers' and 'methors'. Also, most of us are still unfamiliar with the term 'Dalit'. In Bangladesh, this marginalised group of people who encounter discrimination based on their occupation belong to the 'Dalit' community.